This story takes place in the middle of the winter war with Aizen. Also Starrk can release his resurrecion on his own and has no need of his other half/fraccion lilinette. Thus she will not be in this story because I'm not a fan of her mouth.

A Powerful Crew

On a mysterious island on the grand line, in a dark room three people looked at each other one had a big head that was almost to comical to look at, another one to his left looked like a bear because of his body build added to the fact that he wore a hat with ears on it. The last one though looked like just a regular man with a little bit of an intimidating aura around him, even though he did have a huge grin plastered on his face.

So My boys going to be the next pirate king is he well we had better fix that right away can't let him get started without having a proper crew now can I boys." Said the small man as he just sat there chuckling as he finished speaking. "Alright Kuma I want you to go find him a crew that will make him a proper pirate king I don't care how long it takes you or if you have to go across the universe to find them do it for me ok." Then he turned to the man with the big head and said "Ivan I want you to get Garp to teach Luffy about Haki in all three of its forms this way he can control his power and his crew also let him know that Kuma will be gone from any and all shichibukai meetings for a while."

"Yes Dragon san I will do as you say" said the bear guy as he turned and left the room to go find good men to follow his leaders son into battle against the world government.

With this the smallest of the three turned to go only to stop when the man with the large head said Dragon san your father said that he never wanted to see me again after he found out that I cheated him at cards last time. Also Kuma is kind of important to the government right now since they are almost finished with his upgrades."

The small man didn't even turn around as he said "To the first problem pay Garp back the money you owe him and then tell him what I told you too. To the second problem I don't even care just so long as I can open the future up for my son and make it just a little easier for him to deal with. Just as I want to make the world a better place for all future generations by taking out the government. Besides the government can wait a while to release their new toys on the world."

"Yes Dragon san" replied Ivankov the king of Okama Land. As he finished speaking though he realized that he was already speaking to thin air as his leader the legendary revolutionary Monkey D. Dragon, leader of all the revolutionaries, had already left him without saying another word.

In Hueco Mundo on top of las Noches

The hollow Ichigo screamed out loud for the whole world of Las Noches to hear. Everyone within ten miles of the building heard his scream and felt the spiritual pressure he was giving off. Many who were not there to see him in this moment were still completely surprised. Aizen in his room just smiled as he felt the pressure building knowing that Kurosaki could still get stronger he just needed to push him a little more. With that thought in mind he summoned forth several of his arrancar even Grimmjow who had already been beaten.

As Grimmjow showed up he noticed that he wasn't the only one that had been summoned to Aizen's room. Already in the room sat Starrk, the primera espada and Tia Halibel the tercera espada. Both looked at him in complete and utter carelessness, as if he wasn't even worth the effort of punishment in the state he was currently in. this of course only helped his humiliated feeling grow even larger as he looked to where Aizen sat with both Gin and Tousen standing behind him as guards to the meeting that they were currently in. as he sat down at his normal seat Aizen looked at him and said "Well I told you not to fight him, but you didn't listen now look at the state you're in barely able to even lift a finger in your own defense. Oh well I have an easy job for the three of you it was just noted that Ichigo Kurosaki was killed by Ulquiorra on the roof however what is not known is that he was brought back from the dead as a hollow so powerful that even in his second release form Ulquiorra is being beaten quite badly. Now what I need is for you three to split up and find his friends throughout Las Noches and take them to where he is currently running amuck on the roof then you are to help Ulquiorra fight off Ichigo Kurosaki. Also you are Starrk are to go to the world of the living and get Urahara Kisuke and take him to the roof personally as well. Already two of Kurosaki's friends are on the roof to help him out in his fight against Ulquiorra so please do hurry because time is of the essence in this fight unless you all want to lose a very valuable comrade. Now good bye."

With that being said all three espada went about what they were supposed to do. Grimmjow headed straight for Chad who was still knocked out on the ground from when Noitra hit him and so he didn't put up even a small fight as he was taken away. Renji and Rukia on the other hand were just finishing the fight they had against Rudborn who died as soon as the tercera espada showed up. Looking at them both Halibel just sonido'd behind them while they just stared at where she had been this was quickly followed up with a karate chop to the back of both of their necks effectively knocking them both out cold. She then shot off for the roof where the spiritual pressure was starting to get really heavy and very frightening.

Starrk on the other hand was having one of the worst days of his life because as soon as he got to the living world he was confronted with all of the remaining captains and vice-captains that were not already in las noches fighting. Seeing this he didn't even hesitate for a second as he released his resurrecion charged forward at an amazing speed surprising everyone around him as he charged forward and grabbed Urahara and immediately opened a garganta to get away. Turning around Starrk said in an easy voice that caught everyone's attention as they were all charging after him. "CERO METRALLETA" everyone started dodging as best they could though not all of them could get away without getting hurt by the almost completely random cero's. With all of the soul reapers occupied Starrk started through his garganta which let him out right on to the roof of las noches.

When he arrived there Starrk found himself showing up just as Ichigo in his hollowfied form shot a cero from his horns that completely obliterated Ulquiorra's own cero. So shocked was he that he completely forgot that keep his hold on Urahara who finally made a move drawing his sword Benihime and cut Starrk shallowly across his chest to drive him back. This plan of course worked as Starrk jumped away from Kisuke about fifteen feet and pointed his gun straight at him.

Just then he saw Halibel show up with two other soul reaper's under her arms. Turning to Starrk she said "I will go help Ulquiorra san as he fights Kurosaki. It should be interesting." She then proceeded to drop the two soul reapers on to the ground causing them to fall in an unceremonious heap at her feet. This also caused both of the soul reapers to wake up just in time to see Grimmjow show up caring Chad.

What Grimmjow didn't realize was that Chad had woken up and had only not moved do to the fact that he realized that he was heading in the direction that Ichigo and his friends were either at or headed to. Unfortunately for Grimmjow though as soon as they landed Chad used his left arms new ability to hit Grimmjow right in his jaw sending him flying away from him and straight into both Rukia and Renji. As they all got up Grimmjow spat up some blood and screamed "You damn punk how dare you throw a cheap shot at me, at least have the decency to fight me in a fair fight."

Rukia who was standing up right to Grimmjow's left she said so now we have to fight fair when you yourself will use anything on the battle field to your advantage? Who are you to decide that we can't fight like you even if we still refuse to use those on the battle field that are fighting other people? Oh yes we all know how you used Orihime and Neliel to get a cheap shot in on Ichigo you coward. He told us about his fight with you when he came and tried to get up the tower to get Orihime back from Aizen.

Grimmjow grimaced at this news and turned back to her and said "So that was a fight between two men who were just doing their best to kill each other all I did was use a strategy."

All of a sudden there was a pressure spike from behind him and as he turned around to see what had happened only to receive a cero like blast from Renji's bankai. This sent Grimmjow straight back away from all three of them and towards Orihime who had seen everything.

Grimmjow grabbed his Zanpakutou from his sheath, and held steady as he started to release his resurrecion from it so that he could finish this fight as fast as he could so that he could go help Starrk. However this was not to be as his sword did not release because he was still to hurt from his fight with Ichigo early that day. Cursing his luck he looked straight at the three of them and prepared to fight them all in his current condition.

Halibel on the other hand could and had already been forced to release her resurrecion so that she wouldn't be killed by the monster that the substitute soul reaper had been turned into. She looked over towards her fellow espada and saw that she barely recognized Ulquiorra either. "When did you learn that little trick and when were you going to tell the rest of us how to get to that level?" she asked him

"I learned it a few years ago and as for why I didn't show you all well that would be because I haven't told anyone before not even Aizen sama." In fact if this guy was not so strong I would have finished this and no one would be any the wiser as to me having it thus I'm going to ask that you, Grimmjow, and Starrk, continue to keep this secret for me.

Then it happened out of nowhere a giant man that was the size of Yammy appeared out of nowhere everyone stopped and looked at him. Even the hollowfied Ichigo that was nothing more than a mindless berserker stopped to stare at the large man who for some reason had a hat on his head that had ears of its own. Urahara being the sophisticated man that he was calmly walked forward toward the man and said excuse me large sir, may I ask what you are doing here this is not the place for a human to just stand after all this is a war zone. The man looked around at all of them and said "Finally I have found a place where there are good people who are not just fighting to kill each other, but each side fighting for a cause that they both believe is right. Tell me if you had a common enemy would you fight side by side with one another so that both could survive rather than both being destroyed?"

Urahara looked at the man and said "What kind of enemy would that be that it could take on those of us that are here? We are undoubtedly amongst the strongest people from our respective worlds."

Without missing a beat the man looked at them and said "I would be the enemy and the cost of losing would be that everyone here would end up on another planet."

This caused several there to look a little closer at the man in front of them. Sure he didn't look like much, and he didn't even have that much spiritual pressure, but still everyone there realized that his threat was not an idle one. "Tell me where would you want to go for a vacation if you could go anywhere the man said as he walked up to Urahara?" before Urahara could answer though the man brought his hand down on him and he disappeared.

In a comical display everyone's jaw dropped to the ground, except for Ulquiorra whose eyes just grew larger than they ever had before in his life as either a hollow or an arrancar. If this wasn't enough though the bear said he lost and then turned towards Starrk and said "This will be your last chance if you were to go for a vacation where would you want to go?

Starrk immediately sonidoed behind this weird freak and shot one of his cero's at his back, but the man put his hand up in front of him, and deflected Starrks cero at Halibel who was now trying to use one of her Zanpakutou's abilities at the monster. The cero took her by surprise again and knocked her to the ground where she looked up just in time to see the bear hit Starrk with the palm of his hand, and Starrk disappear just like Urahara had a moment ago.

However before anyone did anything to him the bear guy appeared in front of Halibel and hit her as well. She was gone before anyone knew she was gone.

Then the bear guy turned towards Orihime and Uryu. Without warning he was in front of both of them and just looked at Uryu who now stood in front of Orihime in a very defensive way, however because of the injuries that he had received from his previous battles he could do little more than watch as the bear guy hit him with his open palm.

Orihime was shocked not that Uryu had stood up for her, but that she wasn't able to do anything to help. What no one had seen was that she had tried shielding Uryu from the blast with her Santen Kesshun, but the bear man had simply broken right through the middle as though he was hitting a piece of glass with a sledge hammer. That's when the bear hit her as well and she disappeared.

Rukia, Renji, Chad, and Grimmjow all looked at the bear in fear, this man had without even really trying launched five people, three of which were known to be incredibly strong while another one was known to be incredibly smart when it came to fighting, away to who knew where and it didn't look like he was slowing down anytime soon either as he turned next to their little group.

This stopped however when the hollowfied Ichigo, and fully released Ulquiorra jumped in front of him both looking like they were ready for a fight. "Where did you send those people trash?" said Ulquiorra as he stared at the bear.

"I sent them where I'm going to send you now." replied the man that those remaining could barely recognize as human anymore. With his statement declared acted like he was hitting the air in front a few seconds later Ulquiorra and Chad who was consequently standing behind him both grabbed their stomachs as they fell to the ground in pain The Hollowfied Ichigo charged at the bear man suddenly and swung his sword straight for his neck. The man replied by simply putting his hand up in much the same fashion he had when he knocked Starrks cero away with the palm of his hand, and just like Starrks cero Ichigo's sword was sent flying away and by attachment Ichigo was as well. Ulquiorra was up by this point, and looked straight at that man as he said please stay where you are now. Ulquiorra's hands came together in front of his body and those that were left noticed that a glowing green light started to form in between them, he then pulled his hands apart and a large lance appeared in his hands. Looking back to where the strange man was walking towards him he pulled his arm back and said I would rather this not go off anywhere near me when this hits so if you would please disappear. Ulquiorra then threw his lance straight at him and said Lanza del relampago. As it went at him the man stopped and just watched as it slid right by his head taking a small piece out of his hat. "Tch I see the attack is so powerful I barely have control over it myself. All of a sudden miles away from las noches a massive explosion was seen ripping the continuous night of Hueco Mundo apart.

Ulquiorra then put his hands together again and created another one of his lances behind him Renji screamed "He can make more than one of those things?! What the Hell?" Rukia just said "Everyone get yourselves ready if this goes badly we could all be in serious trouble!" with that said everyone started calling out their best attacks and launching them at the bear man at the same time. Ulquiorra even joined them.

Gran Rey Cero Grimmjow called out as he launched his attack for the stranger, Lanza del Relampago Ulquiorra repeated, la Muerte Chad said quietly as he threw a punch with his left arm, Hikotsu Taiho Renji yelled, Some no mai, tsukishiro Rukia said as she punctured the ground four times and launched a large avalanche of snow and ice directly at the bear man.

What none of them had noticed was that their opponent was calling out an attack while they all were as well Ursus Shock he said as he released a small paw shaped bubble right at them only for it to grow to exponential proportions as it flew out knocking all the combined attacks heading straight for him away, and knocking everyone but Ulquiorra either out or to the ground. He then walked up to the group as those that were still awake tried to find the strength to fight this man. Unfortunately the only ones awake were Ulquiorra, Renji, and Grimmjow, and of those three only Ulquiorra was left in any kind of fighting order.

All of a sudden the man disappeared from their eye sight only to reappear right behind both Grimmjow and Renji both of who had managed to stand back up, but just barely. Neither of them could do anything as he launched one of his hands at both of them sending both of them flying away to wherever all the others had been sent.

Ulquiorra just gave him his normal look void of all emotion as he said "Ok trash what's your name and how did you know to send away the first three you hit rather than any of us that you have left behind?"

"My name" replied the man "is Bartholomew Kuma and I was sent to this place to get strong men who could fight, but who also weren't cruel to those they fought or at the least not too much. As for how I knew who to get rid of first well I'm sure you and all of your companions will learn that and many other tricks to the land I'm sending or have sent you all too, so don't worry you will be reunited with your friends soon enough." As he finished speaking he turned around and hit both Rukia and Chad with that opened palm technique of his.

"How do you do that? I've never seen someone make someone disappear by just touching them before."

"Of course you haven't this technique was developed by me and can only be done by someone who has eaten the paw paw fruit from my home world, which you will know more of soon since you will be going there soon. Also be cautious once you get there cause if you're not you will be killed consider this training to make you stronger for the fights to come."

"Enough talking trash it's time to finish this!" replied Ulquiorra as he summoned forth another Lanza Del Relampago and used sonido to get behind Kuma and struck out with his lance right at the man's back. However the man turned around as did this and caught the attack in his hand. Ulquiorra's eyes almost bugged out of his head at this as he said "What impossible with your bare hand alone!"

Then he noticed that the still Hollowfied Ichigo was flying back at them at full speed charging a cero between his horns as he came, unfortunately his moment of distraction cost him as he was hit by the man's palm directly to his chest. The last thing he saw before he disappeared was Ichigo releasing his cero and it completely encompassing his opponent who had been more focused on Ulquiorra at that moment.

As the torrent of spiritual power finished washing over him Bartholomew Kuma looked over to where Ichigo was currently standing with his sword in his hand staring right back at him. "That was a very impressive attack young man especially considering that it actually hit me Kuma said." Then he fell to his knees as he sparks started flying out from all around him. the Hollowfied Ichigo took this as his best opportunity to attack his opponent and to finish this battle quickly so that he could go down to finish off all of those in the building that he was fighting on. However as he used sonido to get behind his opponent, the other man's hand shot out and launched a paw shaped bubble right into his face shattering his mask in the process. Caught by surprise Ichigo could do nothing more than look around for his friends. Noticing that none of his friends or enemies for that matter were there he looked down at his feet only to notice the other man starting to get up from where he had fallen. "Hey do you know where all of my friends are?" Ichigo asked as the man finished.

"Yes" replied the man as he put his hand own on Ichigo's shoulder only for Ichigo to lose sight of him as he was repelled away from him at an unbelievable rate. Sadly the hit was so strong and unexpected that Ichigo was knocked out before he even lost sight of the man in front of him.

Bartholomew Kuma sighed "wow they are some seriously hard hitters if any more of their attacks had hit me I probably would have died" he thought. He then turned around and hit himself in the stomach so that he flew away in the same direction as all the people he had just launched.

Alright there it is chapter one if anyone has any questions I would like to hear them also for anyone that has suggestions for pairings or not I would like to hear those as well.

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